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The same artist who created the mondo rubber duck for the Port of Los Angeles in August has a similarly scaled-up hippo bobbing in London's Thames River. Angelenos turned out in droves to see Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's six-story Rubber Duck that bobbed around L.A.'s port during the L.A. Tall Ships Festival in August. So many people attended that the duck's stay was extended. And as it turns out, London's hippo will be sticking around a bit as well. HippopoThames, as the sculpture is known, measures 72 feet long and 29 feet high. It's made of plywood, steel beams as well as bits of larch and other wood. This hippo with popping eyes and a rudder-like...

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